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Sidney Edward Paget (October 4, 1860 in London - January 28, 1908) was a British illustrator of the Victorian era, who did a great deal of work for The Strand magazine. Image File history File links Paget_holmes. ...
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Sherlock Holmes as imagined by the seminal Holmesian artist, Sidney Paget, in The Strand magazine. ...
Dr. John H. Watson is a fictional character, the sidekick of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional 19th century detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...
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Overview Today, Paget is best known as the creator of the popular image of Sherlock Holmes. He was commissioned to illustrate The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a series of twelve short stories that ran from July 1891 through December 1892. In 1893, he illustrated The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published in The Strand as further episodes of the Adventures. He was later commissioned to illustrate The Hound of the Baskervilles, serialized in The Strand in 1901-02, and another short story series, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, in 1903-04. In all, Paget illustrated one Holmes novel and 37 Holmes short stories. His illustrations have influenced every interpretation of the great detective in fiction, film and drama. Sherlock Holmes as imagined by the seminal Holmesian artist, Sidney Paget, in The Strand magazine. ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. ...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialised in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor 1889. ...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...
The Strand became one of Great Britain's most prestigious fiction magazines. The Holmes series quickly became its most popular feature. It was not at all unusual for issues with Sherlock Holmes stories to sell out at newsstands.
As Holmes's popularity grew, the illustrations became larger and more elaborate. Beginning with "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in 1893, almost every Holmes story in the The Strand featured a full-page illustration as well as many smaller pictures within the text. The illustrations also gained a darker tone as Paget used the black-and-white medium to reflect the grim mood of the stories. The deep, shadowy look of Paget's illustrations probably influenced American detective movies and film noir. They have certainly influenced every film version of the Holmes stories. The Reichenbach Falls The Adventure of the Final Problem is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. ...
This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ...
It is said that Paget based Holmes' appearance on that of his own brother, Walter Paget. (In fact, The Strand actually hired Sidney by mistake; they had originally planned to hire Walter to draw Holmes.) He is also credited with giving the first deerstalker cap and trenchcoat to Holmes, details that were never mentioned in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing. The cap and coat first appear in an illustration for "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" in 1891 and reappear in "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" in 1893. They also appear in a few illustrations from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. (The curved pipe was added by the stage Actor William Gillette.) Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ...
The Boscombe Valley Mystery, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. ...
Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. ...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. ...
All together, Sidney Paget did some 356 published drawings for the Sherlock Holmes series. After his death in 1908, other illustrators found that they had to imitate Paget's style when drawing Sherlock Holmes. The Paget illustrations have been reprinted in many Holmes anthologies. Paget did for Sherlock Holmes what John Tenniel did for Lewis Carroll's Alice stories: he defined the look of a truly great and original fictional character. 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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A complete set of Strand issues featuring the illustrated Sherlock Holmes tales is one of the rarest and most expensive collector's items in publishing history.
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